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REACH Ely Case Study Series: St Peter, Yaxely Cambridge Judge Business School 1 REACH Ely Case Study Series Reimagining Churches as Community Assets for the Common Good ST PETER YAXLEY Text, design, and photography REACH Ely (Reimagining Churches as 2 Dr Timur Alexandrov Community Assets for the Common Good) Cambridge Centre for Social Innovation is a multi-partner research project that Cambridge Judge Business School aims to help communities make fuller use of their churches. Editorial board The project is implemented by Dr Helen Haugh Centre for Social Innovation at Cambridge Centre for Social Innovation Cambridge Judge Business School Cambridge Judge Business School and the Diocese of Ely Geoffrey Hunter with the generous support of Allchurches Trust Diocese of Ely and Historic England www.reachely.org The challenges facing church communities and their buildings have been extensively studied in the light of declining church attendance in the United Kingdom over several decades. REACH Ely aims to address the less-well-understood opportunities for churches to engage and reconnect with the 97.7 per cent of the local communities in the Diocese of Ely who do not attend their parish churches. With the absence of universal determinants of success and failure of churches in the community engagement context, the REACH Ely project will provide an understanding of the relationship between communities and wider use of church buildings as well as the contribution that churches make to the common good. The project will determine community values, needs and opportunities that can be used in the most effective way to ensure a win-win outcome for communities and sustainable future of church buildings. The case study series is based on in-depth interviews and observations about church building use with informants from a subset of deaneries and parishes in the Diocese of Ely, supplemented with secondary information about the communities they represent. The purpose of the case study is to unearth various church experiences in renovating and envisioning their buildings as missional and social spaces, engaging with local and wider communities, addressing current challenges, and learning from their practice. The Glossary is a separate document that accompanies the case study series. It is available as a download from the project’s website www.reachely.org On the cover: Aerial photo supplied courtesy of Simon White of High Exposure, www.high-exposure.co.uk Copyright © 2020 University of Cambridge. All rights reserved. The authors gratefully acknowledge financial support from The Ely Diocesan Board of Finance under research grant ref RG95970. REACH Ely | www.reachely.org 1 ST PETER YAXLEY Church Category: Rural Deanery: Yaxley Address: 43 Church Street, Yaxley, Peterborough PE7 3LH Website: www.saintpeters.co.uk Summary Buildings and Artefacts: Grade I listed building; Medieval rood screen; Two upstairs rooms; Crèche; Arts and crafts wooden pews; Kitchen and facilities; Paintings; Remains of wall paintings; Wooden box (previously containing the heart of William de Yaxley, Abbot of Thorney); Medieval brass and an effigy; Memorial ledger stones; Belfry with six bells Congregation to Population Ratio: 147 / 9,390 Fundraising: Ad-hoc fundraising campaigns; Grants and donations; Overseas church Income Generation: Regular giving; Annual Strawberry Tea; Annual plant sale; Rentals Communications: Website; Facebook pages; Instagram account; YouTube channel; Weekly e-newsletter; Monthly prayer diaries and monthly news (available in paper version, but primarily electronic); WhatsApp groups; TV and pull-down screens in the church; Fence banner; Noticeboards Community Engagement: Community Sunday; Community Care Programme; Yaxley Food Bank; Winter Night Shelter; Sparks; Mothers’ Union; Youth group; Encounter group; Signed services for the deaf; Impaired senses group; Bible studies group; Green Day; Strawberry Tea; Concerts; Beer and Carols at local public house; Christmas Fair; Bell ringing team; Church and community building in Rwanda. 2 REACH Ely Case Study | Part 1: Roots ROOTS Profile Yaxley is said to be one of the largest villages in England (population 9,390 according to 2011 census), sitting approximately four miles (6 km) south of the cathedral city of Peterborough. The village is located on the boundary of the developing Hampton township. Yaxley is served by the A1 road to the west and is separated from Peterborough by the A1139 (Fletton Parkway) to the north. Despite its proximity to Peterborough, Yaxley is an isolated and separate settlement. There are no other built up villages and towns in Huntingdonshire nearby. The nearest railway station is at Peterborough, some six miles away. The parish of Yaxley extends to some 3,296 acres. Yaxley once belonged to the Abbey of Thorney, and at one time had a weekly market and an annual fair. There was once a mere on this spot called Yaxley Mere and a navigable waterway between Yaxley, Holme and onwards to the sea at King’s Lynn. The nearby hamlet of Norman Cross is thought to have been the meeting place of the Hundred Court, possibly formerly marked by a large stone or cross, but there is no record of this, and the name seems to derive from the crossroads rather than from any structural cross. The site appears to have been devoid of buildings until 1797, when a great military prison was erected here for the accommodation of prisoners captured during the Napoleonic Wars. The prison was pulled down in 1816. Village amenities include four village halls run by the Parish Council and two family-run halls that are available for hire, three primary schools, a healthcare centre, a small industrial estate, and numerous clubs, including such as the British Legion and Royal Air Force Club. There is a library with meeting space for hire. Yaxley has a non-league football club, Yaxley FC, and ten football pitches. The village lacks a natural centre – there are no main square or common. A small shopping centre area does exist. Perhaps because of the geographical position described above, Yaxley has expanded without a central plan to manage its growth and is somewhat separated into two by the main road through the village (the Broadway). On either side of this road are two sides of Yaxley – Old (south) and New (north) Yaxley. Besides the parish church of St Peter, Yaxley has a Methodist Chapel in Main Street. In the past, the village also had a Catholic church and Wesleyan, Congregationalist, and Baptist chapels. 3 Top: St Peter’s churchyard surrounded by the fence. Middle: View of the church building from the east; The south side of the church with the tower. Bottom: Footpath towards the south porch; North entrance gates and church noticeboard. 4 Building pews removed from the central aisle to create a dais. Up to 450 people may attend Christmas services, when The church of St Peter is mentioned in the Domesday there is standing room only. Screens and speakers Book of 1086. It is a large cruciform edifice of the have been discretely positioned to relay the service Decorated Style, with some elements of the late to worshippers at the rear and sides of the church. A Perpendicular. Both the nave and chancel have small TV panel is temporarily attached to the medieval clerestories. There are aisles, southern porch and rood screen, and a pull-down projector screen is used a western embattled tower airy flying buttresses for Evening Praise in the South Chapel. supporting the octagonal recessed crocketed spire. The walls of the porch, the east wall of the chancel and A significant renovation was undertaken in the parts of the tower are faced with ashlar, and those of early 1900s but little more was done until the late the rest of the church are coursed rubble. It is a Grade 1990s, with the addition of a lavatory, a servery, and I listed building, featured in England’s Thousand Best an upstairs room and later developments included Churches by Simon Jenkins (2012). the introduction of a dais (along with sound system and screens) and most recently with the rewiring/ Because of strict building regulations and planning redecoration of the building. Two large industrial constraints, the outside of the church maintains gas boilers are used to heat the space. The lead roof the finish that it had from about 15-16th centuries. has minor leaks and up to £2,000 is spent annually ‘It’s a time capsule on the outside’, says Paul Russell, to maintain it. The font was moved to a more central churchwarden. The windows have different styles of position during the works in the late 1990s. 14-15th century tracery. Externally the chancel has a low-pitched gable with a plain parapet and is flanked St Peter Yaxley is located on the south-western by two late 14th-century buttresses with gabled tops. boundary of the village. It is surrounded by a churchyard, maintained by the Parish Council because The church contains a rare, intact set of arts and crafts it is no longer in use save for the burial of ashes. The wooden pews. It can comfortably accommodate up church is open from 10.30 a.m. to 12.30 p.m. from to 250 people without the use of additional seating. Monday to Friday by volunteers throughout the Seating has been added in the South transept – utilising summer months. 5 Opposite page: View from the nave towards the chancel. Above clockwise: Rood screen; Pews in the South aisle; Space near the West tower; Sitting arrangement in the South chapel. Artefacts containing a heart was found behind this stone Inside the church, the west wall of the nave has a in 1842, and is now preserved in a modern recess 17th-century painting with Prince of Wales’s feathers near it. The heart is believed to have been that of and motto within a garter surmounted by a crown, William de Yaxley, Abbot of Thorney, who was vicar figures of a man in Roman armour, another in a here in the 12th century.
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